using preexisting save files

many times while sampling, you will want to have a save state that has already progressed through the game so you don't have to do it yourself

you can look up online for a SaveRAM of the particular game you are looking for, this website has a bunch of them for example.

Using a downloaded SaveRAM file

• in order to use these with bizhawk, launch and close the rom that you are interested in getting the save for, lets say, Mario Party 2 for the N64.

• then navigate on the bizhawk directory to the location of the SaveRAMs for the system for the game, in this case Bizkawhk/N64/SaveRAM

• copy the name of the game in this folder Mario Party 2 (USA).SaveRAM

• take the SaveRAM file you downloaded (it might not have .SaveRAM as an extension), and rename the whole file name, including the extension, to the name you copied before

• now replace this new file onto the previous folder
• and there you have it, your beautiful new save file, will all you want!